The Sea Gypsy

Early Bird Ellorie. That is the name the Pirate Captain gave Ellie when we arrived to board the Sea Gypsy. Before setting sail Elle needed to get her pirate look together so they had the kids pick out beads to wear, a pirate vest and of course get tattooed! Ellie got a star fish tattooed on her hand.

The ship was decked out like no ordinary boat. This was a pirate ship with a Pirate Captain, crew, rigging and cannons. Oh, and a hidden treasure that needed to be found! The little mates needed to take a pirate oath. Once a member of the crew they needed to put the treasure map puzzle together to locate the sunken chest. Now that they told which way the Capt needed to go they needed to learn a few pirate moves. The older crew kept the little mates busy on teaching them how to "ARHG", How to "HEAVE HO" and how to put all hands on deck!

We located the sunken treasure but all we hoisted up was a bottle. Inside the bottle was a note.... Slash, a former member of this very crew stole the treasure! And made of with it herself! OH NO!!!! OH WAIT! We're pirates and we hunt down dirty dogs like Slash to retrieve OUR treasure! ARHG! So the Captain told the kids to keep an eye out for Slash.

Slash didn't get far. She was out in the harbor in a sinking boat. Do we save her? NO WAY! We'll shoot her using our water cannons! YEARHG!!!! So the Capt made 3 passes on Slash's wounded boat each time blasting her with fierce water. Slash held on for dear life. At each pass the kids would run from side to side to man a water canon. On the fourth pass We approached Slash's boat. The kids prepared to fire their cannons.... but where's Slash, she's not on her boat.... SHE"S ON OUR BOAT! Slash is now on the edge of our bow. She realized she was out matched and decided to seize the Sea Gypsy. Slash never made it over the railing as she was pushed off into the ocean by the crew of the Sea Gypsy!

Celebrating the victory we continued on but we didn't know where to go. We found Slash floating about in the ocean with her sinking boat. She pleaded to come aboard and in doing so would tell us where she hid the treasure. The crew made her bark like a dog for entry.

With her she brought the crew a gift. Shark's Blood... it turned out to be red soda. As they all drank the Shark's Blood the Captain set out for the sunken treasure! Sure enough Slash did help and we hoisted up the treasure chest and each mate got to pull a fist full of treasure from the chest!

As any ship does after they pull treasure they did the limbo around the boat. ARHG!
We headed back to port with treasure in our pockets, shark's blood in our belly's and stories to scare 2 year olds! The crew decided to play dead as we entered the dock so to scare the future pirates for the next adventure! ARGH!!!!

From the dock we headed north to Spanky's clam shack to properly fill our belly's. And then home for a nap. Ahhh the pirate life is for me!